South Korea (Day 8) – Bye Seoul!

Sun 19/07/2009

Luckily before I went to bed that night I double checked my flight details otherwise I would have missed my flight. I thought the flight was at 12:00pm but actually it was at 9:20am so that meant I had to leave the apartment at 6am to have sufficient time to check in. There is a bus below Jason’s apartment that goes directly to Gimpo Airport. That is very convenient and saves me going on the metro train swapping and changing about 3 times. The bus was only 6000 won, a damn bargain and it only takes 50 minutes whereas the train would take about 1.5 hours.

The only thing bad about the bus is that it doesn’t let you know when to get off. So instead of dropping me off at the International Airport, I arrived at the Domestic Airport which resembled a ghost town and then walked for about 15 minutes to the International Airport where there was just a few more people (mainly Japanese) wheeling their suitcases around. Gimpo airport even has its own cinema, now that’s another first. I couldn’t possibly watch a movie at 7am in the morning. I wonder if there’s a side screen which displays flight times for those travelers’ killing time in the cinema and waiting to board that plane. I’m surprised it was even open this early and even the snack bar was open with the beautiful aroma of fresh popcorn.

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